This is a major changes release. API is now more stable, filters classes benefits from a better abstraction, AHAH helpers, and UI have been revamped. A lot of bugfixes have been made during the process.
It also add a new feature, the "Quick search" toolbar. This is not a direct search toolbar. It allow user to do a common query like he would do using any other search engine, and an Ajax action will parse it and create one or more matching filters.
Contextes can now define if the form should, or should not enable this feature.
Site administrators can also choose if they want to use our own Apache Solr Service, or keep using the Apache SolR Integration module default one. For now, this does not have any impact, but more features will keep coming and will benefit from our own implementation (which extends the legacy Apache SolR Integration module one by the way).
JavaScript have been rewrote, and should be more efficient and less buggy.
Complete ChangeLog from CVS:
Code refactor: Renamed all API classes to fit to Zend class naming convention
Code refactor: Splited API classes files to fit upper statement
Feature: Added (WIP) Quick search toolbar on assistant form
Feature: Added new API methods to context, which allows developper to ask SolR to arbitrary fetch schema fields
Bugfix: Better JavaScript and jQuery UI handling
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